Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Physicians

Physicians are licensed medical practitioners trained to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease, and within global and public health they function not only as clinical caregivers but as decision-makers, educators, prescribers, and stewards of health systems whose practice shapes population outcomes. Their work is infl…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 27× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2693-1176 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Physicians are licensed medical practitioners trained to diagnose, treat, and prevent disease, and within global and public health they function not only as clinical caregivers but as decision-makers, educators, prescribers, and stewards of health systems whose practice shapes population outcomes. Their work is influenced by workload and working conditions, professional competencies and interprofessional collaboration with nurses and allied staff, prescribing behavior and antimicrobial stewardship, quality-improvement tools, and the legal and organizational structures within which they operate. In resource-constrained and rapidly changing settings these factors bear directly on access to care, patient safety, and the prevention of harm, while clinician wellbeing, including burnout and stress, affects both retention and the quality of care delivered. The peer-reviewed research collected here in the journal's global-health corpus reflects these themes, including the effect of clinic scheduling on physician workload and satisfaction, social competence and work-related behaviors among physicians, nurses, and paramedics, challenges to physicians around hospital immunity and peer review, prescriber knowledge and antimicrobial stewardship, pediatrician knowledge of vaccination, the use of medication plans as quality indicators, physician roles in managing staff and emotions, digital and e-health competencies, and burnout and psychological distress among healthcare staff. Together they situate physicians as central actors in the practice, education, and governance of global health.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 27 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Physicians, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Global Health (ISSN 2693-1176).

Journal editorial board
Andrew Hall · United Kingdom Richard Bright · Australia Zhiqiang Feng · United Kingdom

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